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Msg to Bezos: Being PC makes no business sense

Msg to Bezos: Being PC makes no business sense

A conservative think tank is calling to task the CEO of Amazon for being overtly political and alienating potentially half of his company’s customer base that supports Donald Trump.

The recent annual meeting of Amazon.com investors turned political as a representative of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project questioned CEO Jeff Bezos over his company’s strong opposition to President Trump’s executive orders on immigration and travel.

Justin Danhof, the director of the Free Enterprise Project, points out that Bezos is also the owner of The Washington Post, which he says is no friend of the president.

“… On a daily basis [the Post] trashes the president in an extremely biased manner – and the president has himself made note of that multiple times,” notes Danhof. “And then Amazon, a publicly traded company, [similarly] decides to take a very anti-Trump position.”

“Amazon doesn’t just operate in East and West Coast liberal elite cities,” he points out. “They are a massive seller to the American public – and so it makes no business sense for a company to take overtly political action.”

Danhof says Amazon could face the same economic problems another West Coast company faced when it became too politically correct.

“On this exact issue of immigration, Business Insider reported that Starbucks, for example – another liberal elitist company – that their brand had taken a substantial beating when they came out against Trump’s executive order on immigration,” he shares.

“We don’t have any polling on it right now but certainly Amazon could expect a similar result.”

He suggests that anyone offended by Bezos’ anti-Trump bias should vote with their wallets, and then the market will reflect their impact on Amazon’s bottom line.

Over the years I have been an Amazon shopper. But lately I’ve discovered on-line shopping at Walmart. Walmart is usually a little cheaper and no shipping cost when your order is delivered to the local store.

Unfortunately Amazon has a good platform. So I use it to compare and try to buy from the companies website direct. Problem is, many companies make the mistake of pricing their stuff higher on their own site. Very short sighted. Makes no sense.

I remember when Ma Bell was broken up into pieces for the public’s own good. Bezos thinks he is king of the world right NOW and with WAPO he is into the fake news almost anything these days. He even bragged about special reporters looking for dirt on Trump. Never in my 70 + years have I seen the little ppl of USA that pay taxes so riled up. The ppl voted for Trump in huge #’s all over USA from coast to coast and screamed, stop the lib madness. Even all the illegal voters in CA couldn’t help her either. Trump got his votes in 2,626 counties – 84% nationwide, while Clinton got her votes in just 487 counties with big lib cities. We are MAD as hell and he ain’t taking it anymore. Our memory has been seared with what libs jammed down our throats. We will never forget who did the stuffing.